Improved medical compound



waited: fitaira WILLIAM B: MYRES, OF FRENCHTOWN, NEWJERSEY,

" mam Patel'ttNo. 92,086, dated J mes, 1869.

IMPROVED MEDICAL COMPOUND.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the jaame.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. MYRES, of Frenchtown, in the county of Hunterdon, and State of New Jersey, have invented a. new and valuable Improvement in Medical Compounds; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same. I

I take, of flaxseed, one-fourth of a pound, (bruised licorice-stick,- (bruised,) one ounce; sage-leaves, onefourth ounce; hoarhound-leaves, one-fourth ounce elecampane-ro'ot, (bruised,) one-fourth ounce; tincture of opium, one-fourth ounce; Indian physio, (G illenic tmfoliata stems and leaves, one-fourth ounce; lemon-juice, one half pint; sirup or molasses, one pint, (or white sugar, one pound and brandy, one pint; mix the whole, and, in a suitable metallic vessel, boil the whole until thoroughly compounded, when the mixture is ready for use. v

The above compound I claim to be useful forcoughs,

colds, asthma, consumption, scrofnla, and all eruptions of the skim I 1 v What I claim as my invention, and by Letters Patent,is- Y The medical compound above described, compounded of the materials, of the proportions, and in the desire to secure manner substantially as specified. 

